Requirements :

- 7+ years of dedicated, continuous hands-on experience in API Management, Enterprise Integration, and Middleware Engineering.

- Expert-level, hands-on mastery of GCP Apigee (Apigee X / Apigee Edge), including proxy execution, custom policy creation, and runtime administration.

- Deep knowledge of enterprise API lifecycle management, OpenAPI (Swagger) specs, rate limiting, traffic management, and caching strategies.

- Advanced expertise in API security architectures (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, Mutual TLS, Web Application Firewalls, SAML).

- Strong hands-on coding proficiency in JavaScript, Python, or Java for custom Apigee extensions and callouts.

- Proven experience managing enterprise Developer Portals, API gateways, and multi-tenant API governance frameworks.

- Strictly a dedicated API/Integration background (uninterrupted career trajectory in API management and integration).

Responsibilities :

- Architect, configure, and develop high-throughput API proxies, policies, and target server integrations on GCP Apigee.

- Implement robust, enterprise-grade security policies, OAuth flows, and encryption mechanisms across all exposed APIs.

- Design and maintain the developer portal experience, API productization, and access management strategy.

- Diagnose, debug, and resolve complex API latency, routing, and high-load production issues across multi-cloud backend services.

- Define standard API execution patterns, reusable policy templates, and design guidelines for enterprise application teams.

- Monitor API traffic metrics, performance analytics, and error budgets using Apigee Analytics and Cloud Logging.